An epistle to a friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness : and prolonging the life of man to its natural period : being a summary view of inconsiderate and useless habits that derange the system of nature, thereby causing premature old age and death : with some thoughts on the best means of preventing and overcoming disease / by Charles W. Peale.

  • Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827.
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An epistle to a friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness : and prolonging the life of man to its natural period : being a summary view of inconsiderate and useless habits that derange the system of nature, thereby causing premature old age and death : with some thoughts on the best means of preventing and overcoming disease / by Charles W. Peale. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : From the press of the late R. Aitken, ... by Jane Aitken, 1803.

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48 pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

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Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1469
Shaw & Shoemaker 4829

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Written "on hearing of the indisposition of a person in a public station, whose death would be a public loss ... and having other friends to whom the ideas it contained, might be acceptable [the author] determined to have it printed." - Pref
Film 633 reel 72 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 72, no. 1469).

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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